No Scholes the Real worry for Fergie

IF Manchester United’s latest league win has sent them into their Old Trafford showdown with Real Madrid in confident mood, it also emphasised how difficult it will be trying to cope without the influence of suspended Paul Scholes.

The quiet man of Old Trafford has always preferred to stay in the shadows, while his youth-team contemporaries David Beckham and Ryan Giggs have hogged the limelight.

One only wonders just how many products Scholes would have the opportunity to endorse if he had tried to set himself up as a fashion icon instead of a family man.